I love the type design. The kanji look like they’ve been hammered up as a temporary measure to keep looters out. Evocative of the general environment in the colonies the hero and his comrades are sent to protect.

The title means both “the twilight/dusk/sunset war” and “old age’s war”. Yes, the apostrophe is left out, maybe for artistic reasons.

If OMW sells good and is popular enough (especially when the movie comes out), they would probably willing to buy more Scalzi books. science fiction market is still weak here, so far it’s very difficult to convince editors to invest in the SF genre.

It looks a little like the cover of Matter, by Iain Banks. Not that the stories have anything to do with each other, but if your book is going to sort of remind people of another book, that’s not a bad one to choose.